Usually means: Early stage of technological development.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. primitive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. primitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. primitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. primitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. primitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Primitive, primitive: Wordnik
  7. primitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. primitive: Wiktionary
  9. primitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. primitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. primitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. primitive: Dictionary.com
  13. primitive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. primitive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Primitive (Cyndi Lauper song), Primitive (Neil Diamond album), Primitive (Soulfly album), Primitive (biology), Primitive (computer science), Primitive (disambiguation), Primitive (philately), Primitive (phylogenetics), Primitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Primitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. primitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. primitive: Rhymezone
  19. primitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. primitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. primitive: Free Dictionary
  22. primitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. primitive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primitive: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primitive: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. primitive: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Primitive (integral), primitive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. primitive: Medical dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  4. primitive, primitive, primitive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. primitive: Natural History Terms
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Primitive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primitive: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary

(Note: See primitively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
noun:  A member of a primitive society.
noun:  A simple-minded person.
noun:  (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
noun:  (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
noun:  A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
noun:  (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
adjective:  Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
adjective:  Crude, obsolete.
adjective:  (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
adjective:  (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
adjective:  (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
adjective:  (linguistics, dated) most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of

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